After Georgetown Law, where I had served as head of the Black American Law Students Association, I was selected as an "Honors Intern" Litigator with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and after a couple of years I joined the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as an Enforcement Litigator which ultimately relocated me from K Street Washington, DC to their World Trade Center offices in New York. where now truth be told, I really wanted to be in proximity to my then girlfriend Rhetta who at the time was attending Columbia University Graduate Business School. She has since blessed me by becoming my wife of 47 years.

After a couple of years of commodities compliance litigation, I was recruited to join the New York Stock Exchange as a senior prosecutor when they were establishing a Futures Exchange and needed compliance attorneys to monitor this start up initiative. After a few years of practicing enforcement litigation, I decided to enhance my business skills and accepted a position in JP Morgan's management training program. Upon completion of the one year program I was offered the position of a Private Banker where I excelled and was promoted at JP Morgan to a vice president. As a model banking officer I was photographed along with my clients in the private bank's full page advertisements appearing in Wall Street Journal, NY Times and Fortune Magazine.
I was recruited to manage a private banking division of the highest net worth clients for Chase Manhattan Bank just before its merger with JP Morgan. The final chapter of my banking finance career was spent helping to launch US Trust's Private Banking offices in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

In my midlife I became entrepreneurial and decided to leave the banking industry to found a New York sports and entertainment marketing and management firm with world famous client athletes and entertainers with the invaluable support my friend, the late Arthur Ashe, Jr. Arthur invited me to serve on the founding board of Amistad Press, an independent book publishing co-venture with Time Warner, which published Ashe's three volume book, "A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African American Athlete" 1619-1988, which was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review.

After Arthur's passing, the publishing company was sold to Harper Collins and is now their popular imprint known as Amistad Books. I also co-executive produced the world's first Hip Hop musical "Echo Park" at Harlem's Apollo Theater which featured the iconic Hip Hop pioneering artist, Kurtis Blow.

Currently, I am semi-retired doing licensing contracting work with a Los Angeles entertainment law firm in the music industry with clients including gospel greats BeBe and CeCe Winans, and the estate of the great, late US Jazz pianist, Thelonious Monk. I also enjoying doing commercial voiceover assignments.

My wife Rhetta and I have three adult children, one of whom is a civil rights attorney in the whose practice focuses on children with disabilities.

I came to Georgetown University Law Center for my LL.M. as an Irish lawyer with a practical goal: to expand the number of U.S. state bars I could sit for. It was, quite sensibly, a means to an end.

What I found instead was something far richer. Washington, D.C. felt open in a way I hadn’t before experienced. I visited the Capitol and the White House, spent time in government departments, and even met a Supreme Court Justice. Coming from Ireland, where the Troubles had not yet ended, that openness was striking. Public life felt visible, accessible, and, to me, a little extraordinary in such a large country.

Then there were my classmates. I met a wonderful group from across the United States and around the world. There was serious study, of course, but also music, dancing, excellent food, late-night conversations, and plenty of what we Irish call the craic. I hope to see many of you from F.L.A.G. at the Reunion.

After 14 years practicing commercial real estate and construction law in the Northeast, I moved to Macon, Georgia, “The Soul of the South,” about an hour from Atlanta. Faced with yet another bar exam, I chose a different adventure. Today, I work in nonprofit development at St. Peter Claver Catholic School, a historic Black Catholic school serving children from underserved communities. Making the case for educational opportunity turns out to be just as meaningful as practicing law. In many ways, I am telling my own story. Education has always been my key to opportunity.

A special Hoya connection here is Georgetown’s ‘second founder’, Fr. Patrick Francis Healy, S.J., a Macon native whose remarkable story deserves to be better known locally. I am working on that.

I am married to my college sweetheart, and we are raising a loquacious 17-year-old whom I will be introducing to Georgetown during Reunion Weekend. Pray for me.

Hoyas, come visit Macon. We will provide the welcome, the soul, and the craic.

I have not been able to attend past reunions, so I am happy I will be able to come to DC this year for our 35th. I look forward to reconnecting with classmates.
Following graduation, I returned to the LA area and practiced Labor and Employment law at Mitchell & Knupp LLP. In 1998, I went in-house to Sony Pictures Entertainment and 28 years later I am still there. The scope of my role has changed over the years which has kept it interesting. I currently oversee Ethics & Legal Compliance in addition to the Employment and Labor Relations legal groups.
My husband Mike and I live in Manhattan Beach where we raised our two kids.

October can’t come soon enough—so looking forward to our Reunion and the chance to reconnect, reminisce, and make new memories together in DC!

After I graduated from GULC in 1976, I had careers in law and marathon swimming. Both began during my first year of law school when I became a coffee drinker. Drinking coffee made me shaky. Swimming with the D.C. Dept. of Rec. Masters Team enabled me to reduce my coffee consumption. Years later, swimming became like a tail wagging the dog. I broke one U.S. Swimming National Record and that was for the swim around Manhattan Island - which Sports Illustrated says is 31.3 miles around. People from that part of the world know better than to do things like that but I'm from California. I, poor fool, didn't know any better so I went ahead and done it.

Greetings fellow alumni 👋🏽 I am happy to be on the reunion committee, and to be reuniting soon! 
After graduation, I went to business school, practiced as in-house counsel, and served in leadership roles with alumni, community, and professional associations. I have grown through interesting experiences like yoga, community radio, and TEDx. In recent years, I facilitate learning and leadership as a college professor, advisor, and travel curator.
Looking forward ! 🌞

Greetings Fellow Hoya Lawyas - Since graduating in 2021, I continued working in DC government leadership in the areas of child welfare, education, workforce development and juvenile justice. In 2025, I moved back to my home state of Tennessee after over a decade living and working in DC. Now, I serve as an Executive Director with the Tennessee Department of Children's Services. I am blessed to be able to continue to do the public service work that brought me to GULC years after graduation. I look forward to reuniting with the class of 2021.

Can’t wait to see everyone for our five year reunion!

I'm a government relations attorney based in Annapolis, Maryland, where I lobby the Governor and General Assembly on behalf of clients in housing, clean energy, and emerging technology areas. I live in Howard County with my family and remain as obsessed with Maryland politics as ever. Would love to reconnect — reach me at tom@perryjacobson.com